CYSTIC HYGROMA OF THE NECK
- 1 July 1934
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in American Journal of Diseases of Children
- Vol. 48 (1) , 149-158
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1934.01960140158016
Abstract
True cystic hygroma of the neck is rare. In a review of the literature up to 1914, Dowd1 tabulated ninety-one cases. According to the statistical report given in Dowd's article, Redenbacher reported the first case in 1828. I have compiled sixty-four cases from the literature since Dowd's report; of these only three assumed the proportions presented in the case reported here. REPORT OF A CASE W. K., a male infant, was delivered at Mercy Hospital on July 21, 1931. The birth weight was 8 pounds and 13¾ ounces (4,018.54 Gm.). No difficulty was experienced at delivery. At birth a large, translucent, pearly blue cystic tumor the size of the baby's head was noticed on the right side of the neck and shoulder, extending posteriorly to nearly the midline and anteriorly well forward on the thorax, and from the tip of the shoulder to the mastoid process (fig. 1). ItKeywords
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